March
March
Science and Phenomenology: Contemporary Reinvigoration of Research and Cognition
This course targets to reintroduce the qualitative aspects of observation in scientific acting of modern man, shaping observation and its cognitive use without the conceptual restriction, basing on some Goethe’s pleas of scientific acting. More than rediscover him or herself as an observator, the pupil will understand the performance of Science in human History as the third great step of integration with the world, after Religion and Arts.
Teacher: Manfred Osterroht
Graduated Agronomist Engineer by Universidade de São Paulo and Specialized by Escola Agrícola Dottenfelderhof, Bad Vilbel, Hessen, Germany, Manfred Osterroht worked in the development of production of biodynamic food, counsel and training in biodynamic agriculture. At present, works with Biodynamic Landscaping, courses and workshops in Goetheanism and phenomenology and strategic counseling.
Painting
This course will provide tools and conditions of expressing through painting. It will lead the pupil to experience color and combine it harmonious and creatively, by identifying with the artistic element. Ways to use the brush, different qualities of trace, dilution and uses of ink, types of surface, overlap and composition.
Teacher: Maria Cecilia Dell’ Acqua Tilkian
Maria Cecilia Dell’ Acqua Tilkian, born in São Paulo, is graduated in Design and Arts by Universidade Mackenzie. Taught, at the same University, Architecture, Visual Communication, Industrial Design and Arts. Taught Arts at Escola Waldorf Rudolf Steiner at Elementary and High School and at the buildup of Waldorf teachers. Taught Arts at Escola Travessia, as well as painting and sculpting at Mainumby. Graduated in Artistic Therapy by Escola Livre de Terapia Artística, works with an interdisciplinary group of studies and safekeeping of children with learning difficulties, through artistic therapy.
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Goethe and Modern Science: The Human Skeleton Under Another Look
This course will be present a reflection about the way of understanding Science through a historical perspective, as well as the basis of Goethe’s Phenomenology, indicated by Rudolf Steiner as a useful tool for modern times. The participants will develop a practical study through the human skeleton using artistic resources like drawing and sculpting through the goetheanistic methodology.
Teacher: Dr. Ricardo Ghelmann
Graduated in Medicine by Departamento de Obstetrícia da Unifesp/ Escola Paulista de Medicina, Ricardo Ghelmann has 22 years of experience as a doctor and 20 years of acting in Anthroposophist Medicine in pediatrics and medical clinics. Presently works with pediatrics and medical clinics as well as coordinator of SIMA (Setor Interdepartamental de Medicina Antroposófica da Unifesp/ Escola Paulista de Medicina) since 2006.
Threefoldness of Human Organism
This course will bring the human threefoldness, with its neuro-sensory, rhythmic and metabolic-motor systems, as well as their relations with Thinking, Feeling and Acting, respectively. Aspects of the threefoldness of the social organism and the consequences of imbalance and disharmony of these fields. The pupil will be able to face himself and the world around him with a new beholding.
Teacher: Ricardo Távora
(Specialist) - “Health/ Nutrition/ Anthroposophy” - Labor Doctor specialized in anthroposophic medicine.
Musical Harmony of the Human Body
Eurythmy with its move techniques was created from cosmic laws that also act on the human body, in its proportions, its vital rhythms as well as on the laws that govern Music. This study has a practical application in movement exercises and eurythmical creation. The participant will be led to have a clear notion of his “eurythmical instrument” - his own body - to, therefore, gain autonomy and confidence at creating eurythmical choreography and gestures.
Teacher: Astrid Veronika Brunis
Astrid Veronika Brunis was born in Hannover, Germany, and attended the Waldorf School where her parents taught. Graduated in Eurythmy, Music and Waldorf Pedagogy by the Waldorf Institut in Witten and by Eurythmeum Stuttgart, coacted in the foundation of the Waldorf School in Chemnitz, East Germany, right after the fall of Communism, between 1990 and 97. In 1998 she moved to Brazil along with her husband, Jorge Brunis, where she works as Eurythmy and Music teacher in schools, graduation seminaries and the Antropomúsica course.
The Four Kingdoms of Nature
This course aims the development of a phenomenological regard towards the four kingdoms of nature, which allows the participant to listen its constitutional secrets, revealing essential aspects concerning minerals, plants, animals and the human being. The pupil will develop an appropriate awareness towards the mineral world, to what is dead; expand the existing perception of the vegetal world, of what is alive; understand the manifestation of the animated or animal world, down to the group soul and the group soul and the animal behavior. The participant will learn to read signs and phenomena that overcome the Darwinist theory of evolution. The human being in its mineral, vegetal, animal and divine dimension.
Teacher: Manfred Osterroht